Architectures/AArch64/F26/Installation

Fedora 26 (rawhide) for AArch64

Make Fedora Even Better

If you want to take an active hand in making Fedora even better, there are many ways you can contribute. There are many roles that you can participate. Visit http://whatcanidoforfedora.org/ for more information! While this is a general release, there is always a chance you may encounter bugs or missing features. To report issues encountered during testing, contact the Fedora QA team via the mailing list or in #fedora-qa on Freenode IRC. As testing progresses, common issues are tracked on the Common F25 Bugs page.

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F25_bugs

For tips on reporting a bug effectively, read "how to file a bug report."

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report

Mirror List

• https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/mirrors/Fedora/25/aarch64

Supported Hardware

Overview of Hardware Support Status

Hardware	ACPI	PCI	SATA	On-Board Network	USB	DVD	Display	Audio	link	Notes
Hardware virtualization with QEMU	pass								none
Applied Micro X-Gene (Mustang)				pass	pass	none			none	Tested with APM Tianocore - 3.06.18
Advanced Micro Devices Opteron A1100 (Seattle)				pass		pass			none	Tested with 1002C firmware.
SoftIron Overdrive 1000 (Seattle)	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass			none	Firmware from Oct 19th.
ARM Juno R1/R2 Development Platform	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	warn		none	Tested with custom built linaro 16.02 firmware. Boots in DT or ACPI mode. Unable to boot from SATA DVDs. (linaro 16.9 seems broken with USB devices, use 16.07 for USB DVD install)
Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies QDF2432	pass	warn	pass
Cavium ThunderX CN88XX	none	pass	pass	pass	pass					Tested on: CRB1S, CRB2S, MT60

Network Installation

A network installation is the preferred installation method for current Aarch64 hardware targets. In order to begin you will need to setup the installation server, a guide can be found below:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/Installation_Guide/chap-pxe-server-setup.html

Note
The above documentation references grubx86.efi, but this is the name for x86_64 EFI grub binaries. The grub binary name on AArch64 systems is grubaa64.efi.

The instructions above reference installing grub-efi and shim for copying into the TFTP directory. This will not work for aarch64 binaries. One option is to download the rpms from the tree below and use rpm2cpio to extract and copy the files from there.

Rawhide Installation Tree

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/development/rawhide/Server/aarch64/os/

Once configured use the Fedora 26 for AArch64 installation tree below:

F26 Installation Tree

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/26/Server/aarch64/os/

Install with QEMU

Note
You will need to use qemu-2.3.0-4+ for the below to work.

To use Fedora 26 on QEMU you will need to use 'edk2-20160418gita8c39ba-1' (currently in updates for all releases of Fedora) or later.

sudo dnf install edk2-aarch64 libguestfs-tools-c qemu-system-aarch64

To install:

sudo virt-install    \
      --name Fedora_26_AArch64 --ram 4096 --arch aarch64 \
      --disk size=8 --os-variant fedora22   \
      --location https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/26/Everything/aarch64/os/
*Add kickstart with (root password is 'fedora'):
      --extra-args "inst.ks=https://pwhalen.fedorapeople.org/kickstarts/Fedora-Minimal-AArch64.ks"

For a full list of QEMU installation options and instructions:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/AArch64/Install_with_QEMU

Reported Bugs and Known Issues

• Common F25 bugs

• When using an encrypted partition, "plymouth.enable=0" must be added to the kernel command line. Failure to do so will not allow the passphrase to be entered to unlock the encrypted partition. (BZ#1172740).